You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind.

—Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is an English author.

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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

—Jeanette Winterson in Weight

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What you risk reveals what you value.

—Jeanette Winterson

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People had changed — or rather fridges had changed them. Mrs. Munde felt that being able to store food for longer periods had broken down the community spirit. There was no need to share now, no need to meet every day, gathering your veg or killing a few rabbits.

—Jeanette Winterson

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After every "victory" you have more enemies.

—Jeanette Winterson

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They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

—Jeanette Winterson

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